Package: libgv-ruby
Version: 2.12-5
Severity: important
Hi graphviz maintainer,
Thank you for shipping packages of the bindings, which may provide nice
interface for light-weight language programmers.
However, it seems libgv-ruby is completely broken. I tried to run a
demo script in the source package, but failed:
noritada[0:24]% find . -name "*.rb"
terra:~/tmp/pkg/graphviz-2.12
./config/config_ruby.rb
./tclpkg/gv/demo/modgraph.rb
noritada[0:24]% ruby tclpkg/gv/demo/modgraph.rb
terra:~/tmp/pkg/graphviz-2.12
tclpkg/gv/demo/modgraph.rb:7:in `require': no such file to load -- gv
(LoadError)
from tclpkg/gv/demo/modgraph.rb:7
I find that the so file is installed in /usr/lib/graphviz/ruby, which is
not the default library search path for Ruby, and that the file is not
named as gv.so, which is checked by Ruby when users wrote "require 'gv'":
noritada[0:27]% dpkg -L libgv-ruby | grep so
terra:~/tmp/pkg/graphviz-2.12
/usr/lib/graphviz/ruby/libgv_ruby.so
So, I think you should install /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gv.so, which is a
symlink to this file. You did the job at least for lua ;-)
graphviz (2.12-5) unstable; urgency=low
.
[snip]
* Fixed libgv-lua (Closes: #439525):
[snip]
- Add a symlink from /usr/lib/lua5.1/gv.so to the .so in /usr/lib.
[snip]
(SWIG just provides low-level interface with script languages. Ideally,
a higher-level interface should be built on this interface and that
interface should be shipped as /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gv.rb instead of
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gv.so. However, such a interface does not seem to be
available for Graphviz so far...)
Many thanks!
-nori
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